Bowmore Road Public School Proud to be Platinum

80 Bowmore Road, Toronto, Ontario M4L 3J2

T:416.393.9450 F:416.393.9448

Thelma Sambrook , Principal

Peppi Kondilis-Minos, Vice-Principal

Vicky Branco, Superintendent

Sheila Cary-Meagher, Trustee

Email: bowmore@tdsb.on.ca

School Website: http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/bowmore

Toronto District School Board Website: http://www.tdsb.on.ca

Principal & Vice Principal Message

What an exciting last month of school. Congratulations to the staff and students as they were consistently able to maintain their focus on learning through trips, celebrations, special visitors, physical activity events and fundraising for fellow Canadians!

Thank you to our parents and School Advisory Council for organizing a lovely staff luncheon for us on Monday, June 24

th. It was a great lunch and

all the staff really appreciated sitting down together to enjoy the fantastic dishes and desserts.

Kindergarten and grade six celebrations, along with the grade eight graduation were all special ceremonies. Thank you to all the staff and parents that directly involved in making these events special and memorable for the students and their families.

It has been a pleasure serving as the principal team of Bowmore. With your help we have accomplished so much. We have thoroughly enjoyed working together and leading the school community. We are looking forward to making next year another exciting year of learning for all members of the community.

Have a safe and happy summer!

Thelma Sambrook, Principal & Peppi Minos Vice-Principal

June 2013

Have a safe and happy summer!!

Aug 27 | Office opens for

registrations!

Sept 2 | Labour Day!

Sept 8 | International Day of

Literacy

Sept 10-21 | Caring and Safe

Schools Week

Sept 16 & 17 | Lice Check

Sept 19 | Curriculum Night

Sept 20 | We Day!

Sept 23 | International Day of

Peace

Sept 27 | Terry Fox National

School Run Day

Calendar of Events

Staff leaving Bowmore…..

We would like to thank all staff for making Bowmore a wonderful school community. Below is a list of staff that have made positive contributions to our school that are moving on:

Debra Polgrain, Librarian, is retiring after many years of supporting students and staff at Bowmore.

Chad Waterman, Grade One, is moving on to another school so he can be closer to his family.

Christa Mossman, Grade 2/3, has completed her year at Bowmore and we wish her all the best

Stephen Ross, Grade 7, has completed his term at Bowmore and we wish him all the best

Patrick Power, SNA, is moving on to Annette P.S.

Jason Eno, SNA, has completed his year at Bowmore and we wish him all the best.

All support staff allocations will be completed by the end of the summer and we will share any changes in our opening week.

.newsletter.

Staff changes We are still in the process of finalizing further staff changes for 2012-13 school year. An official staff list will be included in the opening week package that students will receive in September.

Grade Teacher Rm. #

JK/SK Mallette, Darlene Rm. 4

JK/SK Kalogris, Erin Rm. 9

JK/SK Korimsek, Kathy Rm. 12

Grd. 1 Goldberg, Bruce Rm. 2

Grd. 1 Moodie, Maureen Rm. 5

Grd. 1/2 Clarke, Sarah Rm. 14

Grd. 2 Jones, Wendy Rm. 8

Grd. 2/3 Nahatchewitz, Ursula Rm. 13

Grd. 2/3 Parkins, Jennifer Rm. 11

Grd. 3 Varga, Christina Rm. 10

Grd. 4 Comendador, Robert Rm. 24

Grd. 4/5 Obokata, Heather Rm. 19

Grd. 5 Del Aguila, Kara Rm. 21

Grd. 6 Jarvis, Leah Rm. 204

7-0 To be determined Rm. 302

7-1 Norris, Matthew Rm. 305

7-5 EF Sekdorian, Raffi Rm. 102

7-6 EF Mansour, Sabrina Rm. 105

8-0 Baker, Michelle Rm. 311

8-1 Ryan, Kelly Rm. 306

8-5 EF Slaght, Janice Rm. 106

8-6 EF Smith, Jim Rm. 107

Primary ISP Hutchko, Cheryl Rm. 3

Jr. LD Seater, Graham Rm. 25

Jr. HSP Spina, Linda Rm. 20

Grd. 7/8 LD D Davis, Dale Rm. 312

Grd. 7/8 LD R To be determined Rm. 310

Grd. 7/8 HSP Gazzellone, Peter Rm. 303

Gifted Grd. 4 Mumford, Denise Rm. 27

Gifted Grd. 4/5 Bigall, Vera Rm. 26

Gifted Grd. 5/6 Gatt, Cathy Rm. 201

Gifted Grd. 6 David, Pramila Rm. 202

Gifted Grd. 7/8 F Freeman, David Rm. 208

Gifted Grd. 7/8 P Partridge, Myra Rm. 209

Resource Erskine, Sara

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 is the First Day of School

Staff will be outside in the schoolyard before the bell rings on the first day of

school to meet and greet students and parents. At 8:40 the bell will ring and

students will line up with their teacher to enter the school.

Kindergarten students will have a staggered entry. A letter will be sent home

in July informing parents of the class their child has been placed in and the

date on which they will begin school.

Chinese Visitors –

June 14, 2013

Junior Talent Show

Boomapalooza – Sr. Talent

Show

TAP – Teaching Awareness Through Puppetry

This show was offered to Bowmore on behalf of Sandy Spyropoulos,

Chief Academic Officer – Special Education, Section Programs and

Student Support Services

Our school was so lucky to be selected. The performance was by the

group “Teaching Awareness Through Puppetry”. Kirsten Sixt,

Program Director at TAP, co-ordinated the event with us. Children in

Grades 1-2 learned about how to be more tolerant and accept

differences in people. The second show was about how to address

bullying if they experience it at Bowmore.

Mathematica is a series of Math Contests for students from Grade 3 to

Grade 8. Over 60 000 students across Canada participate. Congratulations to all participants and teachers involved! We were thrilled to have over 150 students write the contest this year. Every student that participated will receive a certificate. Individual medal winners (for the top score in the school at each grade level) are: Grade 3 - Noah I. Grade 6 - Samuel P. Grade 4 - Ray C. Grade 7 - Simon H. Grade 5 - Andrew L. & Joshua L. Grade 8 - Amy Y. Special congratulations to Ray C. who obtained a perfect score (30/30) on the Bryron-Germain Contest. Across Canada, 9 858 students wrote this Grade 4 contest. Ray shares his perfect score with one student from Oakville (Fern Hill School) and another student from Toronto (The Giles School). To find out more about the contest or the results ( e.g. honor rolls, answer keys), visit www.mathematicacentrum.ca.

Read, Read, Read! Please encourage your child to read and write often over the summer. We believe all children can reach high levels of achievement and daily practice over the summer with family allows all children the opportunity to maintain their literacy skills and return to school well prepared for learning.

Library News

Fan club

Thank you to parent council for buying our school more fans. We really appreciate it and thanks to the fans everyone is cooled off. Our class got to carry all the fans back from Home Hardware. It

was a FANtastic trip. Room 204

School and Community Leadership

Acknowledgement A special thank you to Sharon Donaldson, Lori Sears and Viviana Kohon on coordinating a fantastic end of the year carnival! Parents, we appreciate your initiative and spirited leadership in making our end of the year celebration so much fun. Your fundraising efforts to enrich the learning environment at Bowmore are greatly appreciated.

At this time we would like to thank Kathleen Sandusky for communication skills and keeping the school parent community well informed of the many school activities, events and accomplishments over the course of the school year.

Thank you as well to Elizabeth Grundon for her amazing efforts and attention to detail as School Advisory Council Treasurer. Her work with Bowmore office staff was greatly appreciated.

A special thank you goes out to Susana Molinolo and

CONGRATULATIONS GRADE 6 STUDENTS!

On June 25th we celebrated the Grade 6 Graduation with a certificate

presentation, along with the two Principle's Awards.

We would like to thank everyone who helped make this special event a

success, including:

Nicola Maguire for the slideshow

Dodie Mezo for managing the shutterfly account

Raffi Sekdorian and Paul Butters for music and tech support

James McCarthy for decorating the cake

Event Fusion Inc. supplied the fabric and stars for the photo area

Mary Trant organized Grade 8 & 9 students who served and cleaned up

And all the parents & Ms. Jarvis who organized the event, food donations,

set up & clean up, and volunteered their time.

BOWMORE CARNIVAL COMMITTEE UPDATE

We hope your kids slept well after all the bouncing and all the sweets.

We hope the grown-ups slept well after the pulled pork and fish tacos.

Thank you for your patience while we counted all the funds, we are

delighted to report that we raised more than $4500, and we were

featured on the front page of Beach Metro News.

Thank you to all the volunteers who made it all happen, and to our

local businesses for donating to the cause. Thanks to the parents who

donated baked goods and all those fabulous cakes for Fancy Nancy's

Cake Walk. Cheers to our musical heros Mr. Butters, Mr. C, The

Unemployed, The Lost Boys and the Jr. Ukelele Troupe. A wet high-

five to the dunk tank victims! A big Bowmore shout-out to Randy,

Sandra and all the caretakers for working this event and staying after

their shifts to help out. Big props to Thelma and Peppi for all their

support. And finally, thank you Mother Nature for smiling down on

our special community. We are the small town in the middle of a big

city, and together we are Bowmore!

QSP COMMITTEE UPDATE

Please wait until the fall to renew your QSP magazine orders. Toss all

renewal notices in the blue box and order through the school campaign

this October. Thank you!

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PITCHED IN TO MAKE

2012/2013 A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THE BOWMORE SCHOOL

COMMUNITY. WE'RE NOW WORKING ON OUR ANNUAL

REPORT WHICH WE WILL POST ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE

AND SEND IN AN E-BLAST ONCE IT'S READY.

TO ALL THE GRADE 8 GRADUATES AND THEIR FAMILIES

WE BID YOU A FOND FAREWELL, WE WISH YOU ONGOING

SUCCESSES.

Bowmore School Council www.bowmoresc.com

Chess Tournament

Bowmore hosted a Chess

Tournament for ER 11 Schools on

June 13. All together eleven teams

of students from grades one to six

participated in the tournament.

Players enjoyed the friendly

competition and the opportunity to

develop their skills. Bowmore’s

Primary Team placed first. A

special thank you to parent

volunteer Jennifer Hermanson for

organizing the tournament for the

school community.

Your Community

Health & Wellness

Jun 21, 2013

Cafe features art from Bowmore Road Public School students Exhibition on display until June 27 at Lazy Daisy’s

Bowmore Rd. and Lazy Daisy

Staff photo/REBECCA FIELD Bowmore Road Public School teacher Kara Del Aguila in front of her student's portraits at Lazy Daisy's Cafe. The portraits will be on display until June 27……………….…see full article in Inside Toronto

Excerpt…”Hanging on the wall of the cozy Lazy Daisy’s café at Gerrard and Coxwell hang 23 portraits of students from Bowmore Road Public School.

Painted, drawn, glued-together, the artwork is different colours, shapes and sizes much like the grade fours and fives who made them.”

From Picasso-like manifestations to portraits made entirely with yarn, each portrait has a different message about who the child is, as well as a display of their artistic ability with shading or colour.

Del Aguila had a discussion with her students about messages in art, and that everything could potentially be read as having meaning or intention.

“That’s a pretty heavy conversation for nine, 10 and 11-year olds, but the idea was that every choice you make reflects you or a message.”

One student, was able to colour his face in the same style as President Obama’s campaign posters, with red and blues shading his face. Another drew herself wearing a hijab in front of the Pakistani flag, to represent where she came from and how she dressed before moving to Canada.

“Some of the kids actually are recognizable in their portraits,” said Del Aguila. “They’re proud of themselves which is the most valuable thing for me to watch.”

Del Aguila hopes to continue doing annual art project displays with Lazy Daisy’s to give her students a chance to be connected with the community and have the opportunity to get their work outside of the school environment.

“It provides this great atmosphere when you get in here,” said Dawn Chapman, owner of Lazy Daisy’s. “The thing about children’s art as well, they’re very unencumbered by restrictions. Their work is very unique.”

Water sports are great

for physical fitness and

health!

Enjoy the summer and

use caution when

swimming outdoors.

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Watershed on Wheels

Bowmore students discovered how water in storm drains travel to

the nearest body of water without treatment through an interactive

model and slide show. Once educated, our students painted yellow

fish beside each storm drain to increase awareness about storm drain

water. Mr. Norris and Mr. Ross guided 7-0 and 7-1 student groups

through our neighbourhood.

Way to go Bowmore!! Lead by example that every act helps!!!

Terracycle Briggade

We collected Foil Pouch Drink

and Tassimo Disks. We were

able to collect over 200 foil

drink pouches and over 300

disks that will be re-directed

from land fill. They have been

shipped to Terracycle for points

that can go towards Bowmore

students.

Narooshan was invaluable in

accumulating the required

amount in order to aid the

school.

Farmer’s Market at

Fairmount Park

Bowmore’s Eco-Corner Eco Hero for June:

Narooshan Pooja for

collecting and re-

directing Drink

Pouches for our Eco

Brigade.